An edition of Three monks, no water (1997)

Three monks, no water

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An edition of Three monks, no water (1997)

Three monks, no water

This story illustrates a familiar Chinese proverb, "Three Monks, No Water," wryly noting how individuals shirk group responsibilities. One monk living alone in his mountain temple never misses his daily trip down to the nearest stream to fill two buckets with water. When a second monk joins him, they share the task, with diminished efficiency. After the arrival of a third monk, the responsibility for water fetching belongs to no one, and the temple suffers a drought--until a disaster frightens the monks into creative negotiation. The carefully composed illustrations, acrylic and colored pencil on a textured golden ground, use a few common objects to re-create the unfamiliar setting, a Buddhist monastery. The proverb, rendered in ancient style Chinese calligraphy, is part of the background on every spread.

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Publisher
Annick Press
Language
English
Pages
32

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Three monks, no water
1997, Annick Press
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Published in
Toronto
Genre
Juvenile fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
jC813/.54

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 v. (unpaged) :
Number of pages
32

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20508341M
Internet Archive
threemonksnowate0000yeti
ISBN 10
1550374435, 1550374427
LCCN
97930734
OCLC/WorldCat
36838715
Library Thing
2130965
Goodreads
2706181
1907517

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